New Today -- 5 August 2017

Perspective

Democrats offer pro-corporate health care "compromise"

The Democratic Party's response to the debacle for Trump was to offer its services in implementing the demands of the insurance giants for "repairing" Obamacare so as to better ensure reduced costs and fatter profits.

News & Analysis

Attorney General Sessions announces crackdown on leakers, threatens reporters

Trump's battle with the press is part of the raging factional warfare within the ruling class and the state centering on differences over imperialist foreign policy.

Apple, Amazon help Chinese government censor the Internet

US Court of Appeals throws out Blackwater murder conviction

Second fire at Dubai skyscraper underscores safety failures at Grenfell Tower

Rome sends warships into Libyan waters to block refugees

Indiana Medicaid plan under Pence seen as model for attack on health care

Charges against Australian "terror" suspects only raise new questions

Australian unions, pseudo-left sign up to Labor's re-election campaign

Sri Lankan Tamil leaders back suppression of oil workers' strike

Arts

Atomic Blonde: The last days of the Cold War

Commentary

A letter from a reader on social conditions and the Fiat workers' strike in Serbia

SPD whips up xenophobia in German federal election

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific